[ale] Hard Coded

[Jim Kinney]

+1.

On November 5, 2015 3:23:01 PM PST, Alex Carver <agcarver+ale at acarver.net> wrote:
>Vinyl is bad, it can develop charge just from motion (triboelectric
>charging).  Latex is a little better, it has a very high but finite
>resistance which will bleed charge.
>
>Wear a wrist strap if you have one or keep in contact with the chassis
>and move slowly when wearing the gloves (don't twiddle fingers, rub
>hands together, etc.)
>
>On 2015-11-05 15:14, Jim Kinney wrote:
>> Ouch.
>> 
>> Ok. If you another, same bios system:
>> 
>> Pull the bad bios, put a pull string of dental floss to not interfere
>with
>> connections and boot from the good bios. Boot to flasher. Pull the
>good
>> bios while the system is running but idle, and plugin the bad one and
>> flash. Good idea to wear vinyl or latex gloves in the insertion to
>limit
>> conducting material. The bios is not being used but does have power.
>> On Nov 5, 2015 2:58 PM, "LnxGnome" <lnxgnome at hopnet.net> wrote:
>> 
>>> Yup, already tried that.
>>>
>>> On 11/5/15 9:40 AM, Jim Kinney wrote:
>>>
>>> Supermicro has a technique to recover from a bad flash. Their bios'
>have a
>>> backup built in. Get the correct bios from their site and dig
>through the
>>> docs. Its near the end of the instructions on flashing the bios.
>>> On Nov 5, 2015 6:10 AM, "LnxGnome" <lnxgnome at hopnet.net> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi folks,
>>>>
>>>>   Does anyone local to Atlanta have a BIOS programmer I could make
>use
>>>> of?  I had an update not work, and the MB won't POST.
>>>>
>>>>   The BIOS Chip is in a ZIF socket and has eight 'legs' (four per
>side).
>>>> It's for a Super Micro X8DTE MB.  SM lists the part as a
>TTL-0775L-32Mb.
>>>>
>>>> Lost in the bit bucket,
>>>> --LnxGnome
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>> 
>> 
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